The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, June 01, 1912, Image 15

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A DANGEROUS-NEWSPAPER TRUST-Somja pepple niay.think n'oljotly Jls-Mnjter-esteoV m the newspaperlockout but the publishers 'andtheiruni6neirip'kyes. . But thatisn't trucy y ""Every mari woman' and childiftChicagb isript'erjested. Forthere isn't; a trtist 'in- existencethaFis half as dangerous to libenty fand -justice as thexChicagonewspaper trush'H6wrnuch, the trust publishers bowbeat, -bulldoze and bullytfeeir enjployes Ts a small matterindeed,compared withlthe harmthey candpto everybody by controlling" what information all thepeople of Chicago can getthrough the newspapers.If' the political tosses in Chiago were as bad as the worstpolitical bosses" in" America, theycouldn't do the-harm that newspaper bosses can 'do. ' -:The truth is, there" is not in theUnited States as vicious- and dangerous a trust as the s umcagonewspaper trust. ' It is the onlytjustin Chicagoi that maintainsand keeps on its pay-roll murdering thugs and sluggers, sIts slugging .wrecking crews amount to aprivate-police fovCe, .which takes.the law; into, its o;wn rhands forthejfinanciab benefff'of the trustpublishers. , . -Its political pull is scstrpngthat a weak mayor, is';arf'absolute nonentity jn this1" strike, andthe entire police departmentsupported .by public taxation istaking" orders frqm.the newspapertr ustandhelping fight workmen,newsboys and carriers.- If the newspaper trust cancrush unionism among its ownemployes;- it can then' crush ,allunjons in Chicago for the benefit of 'big business.' If it can control publicity, itcan absolutely control-the city of"fvtgo ana me lives ot all ottnepeople' whp'live in Chicago.In everything that affects -theselfish 'interests of these trustpublishers i controls - politics.If the Democrats win, the Hearstorgans control office-holders-forthe benefit of the trust. If Republicans win, then The Tribune,Inter-Ocean, News and RecordHerald control the local government'fn the'i'nterest of the trust.The purpose of this-trust is tocontrol' government In Chicagofor" the benefit of the newspapers,and nb't-fo'f fhe benefif nf thPpie.This DOWer is now hpintr ncw?and all' of "the strength of government is being used, to crushunionism ,m the printing trades,to reduce all ' employes of thenewspaper "triisfc taabject slavery.-And if 'the . publishers' - trustwins 'in'fhfs fighV" a'gainst unionism, it will have 'the power to destroy unionism in every' branch ofindustry, in Chicago,' and reducethe people generally to a condition of industrial slavery., That's, why every man, womanand child in Chicago is interesfpHand involved, whether they believe in unionism or not. ,o oIf silence is eolden wfiv shnnlr?hbt 'speech be" free?fcB&K -f-foafrftf jiltflriifTBHaiHBMBB